Boeing's 737 MAX software outsourced to $12.80-an-hour engineers
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Boeing's 737 MAX software outsourced to $12.80-an-hour engineers
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#2(Aus$12.80) = about US$9
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#3The problem is not the low price of the outsourced developer but the outsourcing managers.
Most managers do not control outsourced IT projects because they don't want to or - if business managers - they can't because of a lack of knowledge. I've seen that dozens of time.
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#4Seems to be a dupe of similar post that is also "trending" on HN at the moment:
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#5The problem is not the low price of the outsourced developer but the outsourcing managers. Most managers do not control outsourced IT projects because they don't want to or - if business managers - they can't because of a lack of knowledge. I've seen that dozens of time.
the article talks about long review cycles which imo implies the managers were involved
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#6Geez man. This isn’t good. Not only do you have a code base that kept having to go back and forth for corrections; you also have another country that can do whatever it wants with that code. Steal it, sell it to the highest bidder, etc.
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#7The problem is not the low price of the outsourced developer but the outsourcing managers. Most managers do not control outsourced IT projects because they don't want to or - if business managers - they can't because of a lack of knowledge. I've seen that dozens of time.
Cheap outsourcing itself is kind of a problem in this case. The best Indian engineers just don't work in cheap outsourcing places, they work for proper companies with better salaries. You just get the worst developers who can't find any better by using these methods.
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#8What's interesting to me is that no matter how much bad news comes out about Boeing--and it hasn't stopped at all since the second 737 Max crash--stocks haven't really dropped much. They're still higher than they were a year ago.
Laymen have been led to think stock prices are linked to company performance. But witnessing this, I realize I have zero clue how the stock market works. I can't imagine anything Boeing could do that could actually cause their value to dip. I'm not sure if this is a flaw or a feature of the market.
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#9So what they are saying there were no issues found in 13 dollar per hour engineers code. But the 40 dollars per hour engineers made the plane dive. Interesting. I would rather bet my money on the former.
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#10Next thing we’ll learn is that the entertainment system is actually just a WordPress theme.